
Ben Lerner Reads “Café Loup”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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I Choked on My Stake
Choking is a uniquely human drama for the homo locuins. In my mind it also perversely links the emergency protocols for choking with breath play. Aside from whatever the physiology of asphyxiation and orgasm might be there is the erotic drama of being reduced to mere body and then restored to speech regardless. I have always thought there was sadism haunting the question are you choking the one who still draws breath and conform it into speech demands from the person who is choking a response they cannot give.
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